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[mezzanineview]

Reply here with any question or comment, anything you've always wanted to tell me, you always wanted me to know, anything you always wanted to know. Anon or not, however you want.

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[thefullspectrum.livejournal.com]

Random but do you keep any hamsters as pets or have you done so in the past?

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Nope! I've had a couple of dogs in the past though, one a boxer named Buster, and he dumb as a rock, and one beagle/boxer mix named Duke, who was the most awesome dog in the history of ever ^__^

[skullentine.livejournal.com]

Oh I always wanted to know how do you write such amazing stories? I would kill to know a small portion of your brain to write the stories you do

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, that's a little hard to answer ^__^; I think the best way would be just being honest about it and saying that I don't think my writing is at all extraordinary in any capacity. I get ideas, I work them out in my head a little, I don't do a ton of tweaking because what comes out is really the first way that I give thoughts a voice; in my head, there's not a lot of compromise about it. I still ache and dawdle over every single sentence before it's actually presented, but it's hard for me not to compare with other writers and think "That's what I want to aspire to" or "That's where I wanted to go with this" and still think I'm original, because I'm really not, I think.

It's a strange process because I rarely have a time where I just sit down and words that make sense come out of me. It's always "What should I put here?" or "How can I make this dialogue fluid?" or "What else?", and it's just weird. I have no idea how I've made it this far because it always feels like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of thought and ideas. Characters exist in my head and I try to keep them consistent and that's all I can really do.

I don't know if I'm just downplaying myself because I genuinely feel I'm not that great or because I have an overdeveloped sense of modesty, but that's the closest I can give you.

[skullentine.livejournal.com]

Wow...
well I have to say that when I see your writing I don't compare but I try to write, God this is going to sound so dumb but sorta like you but not really. If that makes sense.

How do you deal with writers block? I'm amazed when you can write chapters of new stories within a week or so and it takes me 3 or 4 to slowly write a new one, not nearly as long as your's.

I must seriously sound like a nut case that goes through your hard drive picking at the stories the way I want to know so much!

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

No, that makes perfect sense. I get that because you like my writing, you see it as a point to work toward, right? But it's also important to you to make it your own. It's actually something I do a lot too, so you're not alone.

Writer's block is pretty horrible to me when it wants to be. Case and point, I've got a ton of actual ideas for my stories right now, but nothing to carry them along and put them into words, so I have to keep wandering around and watching different things, reading, going places, anything to jingle something loose, to give me that feeling to run back to my laptop and let my fingers fly.

As for the chapters, it's just easier for me to charge through it. I don't really know how, just when I have ideas for where to take a story, I go with it and let it come as it may, then edit and add and subtract little things when I'm done with a chapter. I try to make it a decent length, but with ones like TPTP the average chapter was something like 5000+ words, so I don't even know :-)

Don't feel like a creep! I like it when people ask me stuff; makes me feel like a real writer ^__^

[skullentine.livejournal.com]

You are a real writer! Well to me you are! Oh ignore these questions if they don't make sense, the evil dookie flu demon has landed in my head

So do you write down like say a paragragh in a note pad and then just go from there on when you type it up?


Ugh I have so much to ask you but my head's too blocked to think! I must ask you in a few days again before i say something really stupid!

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Haha, thank you very much!

Sometimes I do that, yeah, but it's more like a phrase or a word, a sentence that can jumpstart the brain and hopefully bring another string of writing when I type it up. if it doesn't quite fit, I have a separate file of ideas and conversations (etc.) that don't quite fit anywhere else but on its own, and there they wait to be put into a bigger work, or have one started from that idea.

Take your time, I'm not leaving the interwebs anytime soon :-)